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That rather depends on the rest of your symbology. Consider if the distinction between jungles and other kinds of forests is important; if so, what about other distinctions between forests like temperate and boreal/taiga?

Take a look at this map I made of Britannia from the Ultima games.

I represented forests as collections of tree symbols, and for jungle I just took the broadleaf tree symbol and mixed it with palm trees. There's a little down in the southwest.

If you are NOT using individual tree icons then it would be a bit trickier...

-Rob A>

Ah, I see. Yeah, I like what you've done with your jungle. I do my maps hand drawn, so it might be a little trickier for me to get that effect, but I feel like I at least have a starting point now. Thanks!

When you say by hand do you mean on paper or within the software? I do all my stuff by hand plus I use some of the effects, blurs and whatnots to quickly update certain things.

I had some jungle in my Elechos commission that might generate some other ideas for you. If you are just drawing it by hand with say a pencil then you probably just have to draw a lot more vine type stuff to fill the area in more thickly.

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